Katy Simpson Smith Novelist Katy Simpson Smith returns as the keynote author at the 35th annual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Oct. 19-21 with her fourth novel, “The Weeds,” a meditation on the lives of two women from two centuries as they catalogue the flora of the Roman Colosseum. A Jackson…
Kelsey Damms, library associate for public services at Mississippi University for Women’s Fant Memorial Library, is the recipient of the Owl Star award for the third quarter. “To win the Owl Star award is a great honor. It was a big surprise for me, and it makes me feel appreciated,”…
Employees can purchase 20 meals plus 25 flex dollars for $155 or just 20 meals for $130 without flex dollars. It can even be done through payroll deduction. The meals will be added to your MUW ID card and then swiped each time you visit the cafeteria. This is $6.50…
African American undergraduate students Diane Hardy, Barbara Turner and Laverne Greene, and graduate students Jacqueline Edwards, Mary Flowers and Eula Houser, stepped foot on the campus of Mississippi University for Women in 1966, facing all manner of ridicule to open the door for future generations of African American students. The…
Mississippi University for Women’s newly-formed ethics bowl team is preparing to compete in the Mississippi Ethics Bowl Challenge, beginning Wednesday, Oct. 18. Jill Drouillard “Ethan Davis, the assistant director for the Center for Practical Ethics at the University of Mississippi reached out to me regarding the Mississippi Ethics Bowl Challenge…
